#project-helix

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Can we just make requests at any time? Is there a queue?

Yeah, feel free to drop a request, and i’ll see if i can do it x3 And no, no queue. 

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project-helix replied to your post: like, what gets me is that archer wasn’t angry at...

that’s a lot of words to say “that’s gay” with. fate has taken up residence in you.

it’s actually not that many because “that’s gay” is the conclusion to that analysis. it is necessary to write what i do because there are a lot of nuances to archer and cu and how they feel about each other. this post doesn’t begin to describe them. there is like, proooobably no other couple like them in the fate series. like, there is a major difference between them and, let’s say, osakabehime and musashi. or jalter and salter. or lu bu and chen gong.

you want “that many”? then you’re gonna have to listen to me talk about how cu is the embodiment of what archer desires in the sense that he’s a hero who fulfilled his dream with zero regrets as to how it ended and all the sacrifice it took to achieve it because cu chulainn will never be anyone but himself and his dream of heroism was made knowing perfectly well how it would end and stuck with it when that very same end came. however, archer also cannot abide that because no matter how much he admires the strength he doesn’t have, it still pisses him the fuck off because why the fuck would anyone ever look forward to a life that will end in a bloody and lonely death. archer had one, and he learned to hate it when he started dealing it too. he thinks that lancer’s life was awful and unfair because archer fundamentally is a person who wants to make others happy and the idea that someone would subject themselves to that much pain and he can’t save them because 1) it already happened so he can’t stop it and 2) it was a martyrdom that someone else had to go through instead of him, is infuriating to him.

but at the same time, lancer cannot approve of how archer abandoned his pride and calls his own efforts worthless and wrong. archer doesn’t use his bow in direct combat even though he’s supposed to be the heroic spirit of the bow. a weapon is a warrior’s pride, and the fact that archer refuses to bring out the symbol, the pinnacle of his deeds and his ideals, is baffling to lancer so their fight in unlimited blade works is lancer’s efforts to break through archer’s shell of self-deprecation and force him to use something that will prove archer has any pride as a warrior. and it fails, because archer really at this point has no pride to reclaim because cu chulainn is not the one meant to defeat him. in addition, archer survives gae bolg with a noble phantasm belonging to someone else. at the very end archer would still rather use the pride of someone else to further his own ends, even though ironically rho aias was conjured by unlimited blade works, the very thing that lancer was looking forward to archer using to defeat him. all that does is reinforce that archer has no pride, not even in the reality marble that stores every single weapon archer has ever seen and all the borrowed ideals he’s ever admired. 

you still think that’s too many words? like, i can go on. someone else has gone on.

like sure, i can say “that’s gay” to every single fate pairing with chemistry in the source material, but the fun part comes from explaining why it’s gay. in fact the fun part of the fate series is getting lost in the sauce and explaining why anything is anything. it’s about the themes. it’s about going ham about it being about the themes.

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project-helix replied to your post: nasu shoved kotomine kirei in your face and...

would i tho

why doubt me when you can read heaven’s feel for yourself

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project-helix replied to your post “i chose the iconic emiya ubw smile for my icon because that's the...”

i....feel like this is not true. danny, are you being dishonest.

i am never dishonest about my faves. like, even for jokes the implication that i am... not gonna lie, it kind of stings. 

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project-helix replied to your post: every single time my dad calls me about paying for...

my mom used to do this shit a lot. like SHUT UP i KNOW i wasn’t going to forget.

he’s not doing it to nag me, don’t misunderstand. he only calls me to do so when he’s got the funds for it. i’m not complaining about my dad. i’m complaining about the cost of university being unfairly high for international students. 

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#if you read all these tags send me your favorite men of color thx | You included Carlos Penavega which is awesome of you. Torchwood may have made me realize I'm gay but Carlos Big Time Rush was my first crush and you know what? I stand by that. Dude was cute as hell and had a nice voice.

CONFESSION i am just now watching big time rush for the first time ever thanks to @lizzie-mcguires and and i wasnt expecting to love it so much??? but yee carlos had to be in there that was a no brainer

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project-helix replied to your post: “did you do the assigned readings?” is my favorite...

what is this in reference to

i don’t quite remember but it was a post where someone got burned hard. 

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project-helix replied to your post: this book i'm reading for class starts out with...

there hasn’t been a good year since. i just want this fuckin lunatic out of office and human rights to be a priority again.

the world as a whole right now is a crapsack yeah but i mean in general 2016 had the worst fucking energy to it out of any year so far at least for me.